When I got to the palace it was not a pretty sight. I reminded me of when mom and dad died. I don't remember much but when I see this place it seems like it happening all over again. This time I am older and stronger. I climbed over the gate and jumped down. I fought my way to the entrance of the palace. I took a deep breath and let it out. 'Goodess please protect me. You too Taki. If it comes to that you have my permission to shift.' "Got it girl." I barged in to the palace doors. "Well, well, well, who do we have here? Aren't you going to introduce yourself fake king?" "Fake? Really? Ok we will go with that. I will be over at the palace in lets say 3 weeks or a month to have enough time to train to your little hearts content then we will mean war. Now I would leave now if I were you. The others are about to leave." "Before I do, I want to tell you, You will regret what you have done here tonight Leon." "We will see my wife." "Another thing I am not your wife or bride or whatever you want me to be. I will see you in a month then." So I teleported back to where everyone was. "Wait everyone big news!"
I almost fell out of excitement. Hawk and Sitka caught me. "Sorry about that. Thanks guys. Anyway big news! In a months time there will be a war!" "How do you know this Zelda." Said Ezra. "Um well I heard my aunt and uncle are coming today and wanted to surprise them at the castle by some men she sent for something. Anyway that's not important! I heard it from Leon's own mouth. We need to prepare for war. New plan. Those of you who are coming with me get ready. We will be leaving today! I need to tell the king! Ezra you tell him please. I will tell the wolves and the other animals." "Ok be careful out there." "I will all of you be safe promise me." "Yes princess!" They all said in unison.
Once my people were ready we headed out. As we were walking, I had something to say to everyone. " Here is the thing. Some of you I have known for longer. Those of you I do know Hawk. Please be on your best behavior and not embarrass me or cause trouble any of you ok? Please Nova, Elekra and Hawk don't be over protective just this once. They will be doing what they do to get us ready for battle ok? If you are overprotective, I will have to kill you and its no joke Hawk." "Yeah I know."
We continued walking to the wolf villiage until we saw Oliver. "Hello Oliver. How is fang these days?" "Oh he is good right?" Then I saw his eyes change color. "Good to see you again princess." "You too Fang." Then it turned back to Oliver. "Welcome all of you. Please come into the pack house and let us discuss our business." Then we followed Oliver into the packhouse to a big room which was an office. "Ok since you are here earlier than we thought, something must have happened." "Yes um my aunt and uncle sent some men. To guard me while I am alone and no one is with me but I have them so its not biggie now. Uh so I was wondering why my aunt and uncle were coming over today. So I went to the castle to surprise them. When I got there it was a blood bath. I fought my way to the entrance of the palace and who do I find? Its Leon himself. The one we are going to fight. He said he would be here in a months time. It doesn't give us much time to get ready." "No it doesn't. Sigh. Ok. Did you warn the other animals?" "No I wanted to tell you first." "Ok then go do that." "Ok. Boys and girls stay here I promise nothing will happen to me. Its only on the boarder." "You better come back in one piece." "Yeah yeah I know Hawk." "The rest of you follow me. Let me show you all around."
I walked to the tree where the boss of the little animals were. I knocked on the tree. "Who is it?" then he opened the door. "Oh princess excuse me. Did something happen?" "Yes prepare for battle. It will be happening in a month form now." "But that's…." "Yeah its my birthday who cares. What's done is going to be done." "Right. Thanks for the warning. Where shall we all meet at the time?" "I will give word when I know." "Right be safe princess." "Thank you sir." Then I left he closed the door.
I looked around and found Hawk. "See I told you I'd be alright." "Oh really? Then what is that?" "What's what?" then I saw where he was pointing. 'Damn! I thought we dodged that Taki!" "Its ok girl. He can't do anything to you." 'That's true.' "Its just a branch scratch don't worry." "Sure it is." "Fine don't believe me. Just to tell you I won't go easy on you." "When have you ever?" "Ok so where is everyone else?" "Roaming around. I told Oliver that friend of yours I would wait for you. He is showing everyone else around." "Ok so shall I show you around?" "Yeah I guess. Shall we?" "We shall." I grabbed his arm and pointed to things. I told him where things are if he needed it and so on. Then Hawk told me the meeting place I knew where it was right away.
"I'm back everyone. So what is the plan Oliver?" "Well for starters I think we should gather the warriors and see how dragons and free spirits fight first." "Ok cool." "Hawk and Denzel. I haven't seen you both fight yet. Lets start off with you two." "OK I'll get my warriors then go to the training grounds ok?" "Right away Oliver." Then they all followed me and we saw the warriors getting ready. They all greeted me since they knew me. "Good to see you everyone. I wish it was better circumstances though." "Yeah us too but we get to see you at least." Said one of the 20 something year old warriors. "Hey is your little brother around?" "If you call him little that means your little your practically the same age." "Whatever." "Jack get over here!" Then I heard running footsteps. "Ah there you are twerp." "Hey good to see you. Want to go a round of sparring?" "Actually not right now. My childhood friend and one of my other friends are going to fight right now. They are the dragons I chose. Well half of them. I had the others stay back." "Ok cool. Lets see how dragons fight."
"Ok Hawk and Denzel was it? Do your usual stance there is only one rule. No killing. The first one to give in or tap their hand looses. Ready? Go!" After they had been going on for a few minutes, I saw how good Denzel was. "Damn. Denzel is good." Then I saw his feet about to change. "Oh come on don't cheat Denzel." Then I saw his feet disappear. His dragon feet. After a good almost two hours. Hawk pinned Denzel down. "Ok Hawk is the winner!" Hawk helped Denzel up. "Good fight man." "Thanks Hawk. Ow. You didn't have to be so hard on me." "Sorry buddy you'll heal." He patted Denzel on the back. "Ok now lets see how you Zelda and the wolves fight." Said Hawk. "Oh you bed I will." 'Ready to blow their minds Taki?' 'Ready girl' "Oliver we are going to do it that way." He knew what she meant and shifted to Fang and I shifted to Taki. "Ok Ready Fang?" "Been ready for a long time Taki. Lets show them how we roll! Yeah!" Then we started fighting.
I pinned him down but he got back up then we fought again. It was a good long while. I lost track of how long we fought but I finally pinned him down again and he gave in. "Ok get off me now Taki." "Haha try to get up yourself Mr. Alpha. Do you want your warriors to think of you as a weakling?" I joked. "You wish Zelda." I felt him try to get up from under me then he finally got up and I flew up before I fell. "Good catch Taki" 'Yeah it sure was Zelda. Should we turn back?' "Lets see if Fang does then we will ok?" 'Sure thing.' After Fang calmed down Fang turned to Oliver. Luckily his clothes were still present on him. Then I changed back as well. "You ok there Oliver?"
"Yeah I'll live. You've gotten stronger good for you." "Yeah sorry." "NO its all good." "You got him good Zel." "Yeah thanks Hawk. Do you want to do the dragon and wolves today or tomorrow?" "We can do it tomorrow. They have been training all day today." "OK sounds good."
"Let me show you to your rooms." So he took us to the pack house up the stairs and the rooms next to his our the girls rooms. Nakita and I will share a room 2 boys to a room then Nova and Scarlet share one since they are brother and sister. "Ok when you feel rested I will have someone cook for us." "Ok sounds good." Once I hit that bed I was out like a light.
I heard someone knocking on our door but I was so tired I couldn't respond to them. I'm assuming Nakita opened it because after that I was in a deeper sleep. "Is she asleep?" "Yeah once she hit the bed she passed out." "Haha so like her. They have some snacks down there. Dinner will be done soon." "Ok thanks."
They went downstairs to meet the warriors in person and get to know them. They actually made pretty good friends. It was getting late and Zelda hadn't gotten up yet. Hawk and Nakita were getting worried. So Nakita went to check up on her.
She knocked at the door and their was no answer. Then she knocked again and said who she was and still no answer. She tried opening the door but it was locked. "Zelda if you don't open this door I will break it down!" I wanted to wake up but couldn't something must be wrong with me. Then I heard a door break. "Zelda are you ok? Please speak to me." I couldn't speak but maybe Taki can. 'Taki can you hear me?' "Yes I can hear you Zelda. I don't know what is going on either. I can try mind linking with her to see if it will work." Then she tried linking. "Nakita can you hear me?" 'Yeah I can hear you. What is wrong with her?" "I don't know she is conscious in her mind she just can't wake up. Bring the siblings. Now!" 'Yes maam." Then I heard her run out.
"Hawk! Its urgent! You need to go stay with Zelda now! I need to get the siblings! Something is wrong with Zelda! She won't wake up but she is conscious." "OK coming right away!" He rushed over to Zelda's room.
"Zelda!" He sat next to her and held her hand. "Zel what's wrong with you? Why aren't you waking up? Please tell me?" No response. "I hope they get here soon. At least you don't have a fever but your sweating. I hope you aren't sick." Then finally the siblings got there.
"What's wrong with Zelda?!" said Elektra. "I don't know. When her wolf talked to me she said that Zelda was conscious but she can't wake for some reason." Said Nakita. "Ok let me see if I can find out what is wrong. You two need to go out. My brother and I need to do a check up and need room." "Yes do whatever you can."
Once they were out, they started the examination. "Ok brother. Lets try that." "OK lets do it." then they placed both their hands on her head and a bright blue light appeared. Once it was gone they waited to see if it worked. "Hmm. I'm so tired." "It worked sis!" "I know Nova." "Hey Zelda are you ok?" said Elektra. "Yeah just a little tired. What happened to me?" "You were just overtired. Since none of us were strong enough by ourselves we had to use both our powers." "Sorry guys. Its just been rough I've been getting ready for the future better and not worrying about how tired I am." "Well you need to worry about yourself now. You have responsibilities." "Yeah I know. Sigh. I'm going to get up and see everyone." Then I went out to see everyone.
"Oh Hawk, Denzel, Nakita Aries. What's up?" "Your ok Zel!" He ran over and hugged me. "Ow not so hard that hurts. I was just overworked that's all." "From now on its our duty for you not to overwork. Oliver did you hear that?" "Yeah I did. Well we have less than a month now before the battle takes place. So if your up to it lets do some training." I yawned. "Ok sure." I followed them out to the training grounds.
"Ok shall we see how dragons and free spirits fight?" said Oliver. "Sure uh who's not chicken to fight me." I said to my dragons. Everyone looked at each other. "I will go." Said Aries. "Ok. I know you aren't afraid Nakita. As for you Hawk and Denzel, You will have to fight me eventually if you want to go into battle. The guy we are after is stronger than I am." "Yeah we know." "Good that you both know." "OK now go your normal rules." "Yes sir." I said. Then when he said go I waited for Aries to come at me. when he did I was expecting him to punch and I blocked it. Since I know his movements I want to see if I can beat him. I only fought him once but that's my specialty I can tell someone's pattern when I fought them once. So I kept fighting him until finally I pinned him down. "The winner is Zelda!" Everyone cheered. They patted my back and congratulated me. Suddenly I heard a voice in my head. "The battle is getting near Zelda. Train as much as you can I will be coming in a couple of weeks I hope your doing well my bride." Then the voice stopped. I finally came to my senses and someone asked if I was ok. "Yeah I'm fine. At least I will be. I need to talk to the alpha. Where is he?"
Then out comes Oliver. "Oh Oliver I need to speak with you now." "Uh ok. Beta take over. Train the dragons." "Yes sir." Then I went to Oliver's office to talk to him. I told him what happened out there and why I was in a zone. "Hmm I see. It is true we do got two more weeks. We better hurry. And train all of you." "Yeah I think so too. Its strange though why did he use my mind to tell me?" "He really said that you are his bride huh? Why would he say that?" "Uh well it's a long story. Maybe if I survive the battle I will tell you. Lets get to training." When I went out, I saw Denzel training. "He was doing pretty good with a wolf. In his human form. I looked like the others had already trained and out of breath too. they look pretty beat up.
I went up to them and I heard someone say look out and I dodged whoever it was. "Woah that was close." Then I saw them fall down. "Uh Oliver?" "This is my brother Thor. Yo! Thor get up!" He listened to his brother. "You remember princess Zelda right?" "Yeah nice to see you again princess." "Good to see you too. Thor. Who is this man you were trying to beat up?" "Oh we're good. Took it a little too far. My old friend Danny." "Nice to meet you Danny." "You too princess. Ow. Did you have to hit me that hard jeeze bro." "Haha well we will be fighting a strong opponent. He's a vampire." "Yeah you keep telling me." "Uh just to let you know if you didn't already he killed my parents and my aunt and uncle raised me." "Uh I'm sorry. Dude you didn't tell me!" "I didn't know." "Its ok I was only 5 years old and jet was 4." "Oh are you guys training? Can I fight you Zelda?" Asked Thor. "Hell yeah. When I saw you again I was hoping too."
"Woah there bro. She just fought she needs to rest." "Oh forget it. I can fight him with the strength I have. I don't need much to fight him." "Oh you think so huh?" said Thor. "I've changed a lot." "Well your looks maybe. As for your skills lets see. Lets wait until this spar is over." I can tell the sparr was almost over. Denzel looked like he was winning. Then when the sparr was over he won. "Whoo! Good job Denzel!" I yelled. "Ok next is Thor and Zelda!" then we got in our normal position and waited for the signal.